India rubber world . Danano creek, aboutnoon, when, after a lunch of tinned delicacies and nativewine, he took to the woods and watched the natives gatherrubber by methods different from any ever before described inprint, and at a cost to the company figured at about 35 centsper pound, packed for shipment. This advertisement was printed in January, 1903 ; in the Oc-tober preceding, the manager named in it visited The IndiaRubber World office, not then having gone to his post to be-gin the initial work of development. At that time the Casi-quiare region was reported to be a virgin forest ; ever
India rubber world . Danano creek, aboutnoon, when, after a lunch of tinned delicacies and nativewine, he took to the woods and watched the natives gatherrubber by methods different from any ever before described inprint, and at a cost to the company figured at about 35 centsper pound, packed for shipment. This advertisement was printed in January, 1903 ; in the Oc-tober preceding, the manager named in it visited The IndiaRubber World office, not then having gone to his post to be-gin the initial work of development. At that time the Casi-quiare region was reported to be a virgin forest ; everythingremained to be done. According to later advertisements, thisnew §5,000,000 company paid a 6 per cent, dividend in March,and now a second dividend is announced, payable September20. Very rapid development, for a new country. According to all the maps, the Casiquiare has two outlets tothe Atlantic ocean—one through the Orinoco, and one through THIS IS A TRADING POST on the Casiquiare River. —Advertisement. 9. ,-TT!lTi PACKING RUBBER FOR SHIPMENT. View oi Will & warehouse in Man;ios, appropriated for advertise-ments of the Para Rubber Plantation Co. View of a trading station on the river Javary, in lirazil, appropriated foradvertisements of the Para Rubber Plan tali 418 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [September i, 1903. the Negro to the Amazon and thence to the seaboard. In arecent book [ Down the Orinoco in a Canoe. London: 1902]Perez Triana, son of a former president of Colombia, describesthe difficult feat of shooting the rapids on this river at Mai-pures and Atures, ten days being consumed in a progress offitty miles. But not to mention the rapids, the Orinoco hasbeen closed to navigation for more than a year by the troublesin Venezuela. Navigation on the Negro is not much better. Our corre-spondent at Manaos writes that the river is really navigableonly to Santa Isabel, where the rapids begin ; the Casiquiareis a good 400 miles from Santa Isabel, he adds; then how dot
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